Book Description

How can videogame glitches foment critical thinking and self-directed learning in adults? How do Super Mario World videogame glitches contribute to this skill set? This book pinpoints the range of skills called into play and challenged when an individual encounters glitches while playing video games; more specifically, it is concerned with which media literacy skills are attained or developed independently of supervision.These are a few of the questions examined by Beatriz Albuquerque in this text, with the core of this study being the question of how encounters with arbitrary glitches can motivate and elicit critical thinking. In addition to that, the book investigates how self-directed learning can be explored in the classroom. This book considers how experimentation through forms of play fosters profound and complex connections in adults between creativity, productivity, imagination, knowledge, and coping strategies. It is in the joining of these two main areas of research (new media literacies and the educational importance of play) and by taking glitches seriously that this study emerges in support of self-directed learning as a facilitator for critical thinking.